The Foundation for Community Arts is a private, nonprofit association of visual art enthusiasts, who have a passion for the public display of fine artworks and are committed to community revitalization though civic leadership development around the visual arts.
We are committed to further establishing Atlanta as a world wide center for the best in the visual arts, by displaying outstanding artworks in an honorable and uplifting manner, and encouraging improvement and maturity of our artists and artisans.

The Bureau of Cultural Affairs (BCA) believes that assisting the local arts community financially as well as technically is an investment in the continued cultural growth of the city of Atlanta. At the same time, the Bureau recognizes that government resources are limited while demands for services are high. For this reason, the Bureau views its financial assistance role as that of a catalyst, helping to augment and strengthen a project?s or organizations overall base of support. BCA Contracts for Arts Services dollars, although modest, help to leverage private contributions to the arts by generating matching capital aid from government, foundation, corporate and other private endowments.

The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The Unified Database of Arts Organizations (UDAO). [Electronic database].http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/UDAO/
The goal of the Unified Database is to provide a comprehensive, flexible, and sustainable database of arts organizations that meet the needs of arts researchers, funders, and policy makers. The core of the system is a master list of organizations with activities in the arts that is derived from data obtained from the IRS and from state arts agencies through grantee or mailing lists.

Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA)
[Electronic data archive.] http://www.cpanda.org
CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. A collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, CPANDA is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Urban Institute. Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U. S. Artists [Report from the Culture, Creativity and Communities Program of the Urban Institute]. [Electronic resource]. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 2002.http://www.usartistsreport.org/
This site contains information from the Investing in Creativity study, a national research initiative about the various factors that enable artists to pursue their careers -- artists' support programs, policy initiatives, and characteristics of place, among other issues. The study was conducted by the Urban Institute with support from 38 public- and private-sector funders. It also includes links to related research projects and initiatives.